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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kdesdk/scripts install failure
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-02-25 23:04:24
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 02:15:29PM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > nbecker@fred.net wrote:
> > >
> > > /bin/sh ../admin/mkinstalldirs /opt/kde/bin
> > >  ../../  kcvs2pack /opt/kde/bin/kcvs2pack
> > > /bin/sh: ../../: is a directory
> > >  ../../  cxxmetric /opt/kde/bin/cxxmetric
> > > /bin/sh: ../../: is a directory
> > >
> > > Here's what it says in scripts/Makefile:
> > > INSTALL = ../../
> > >
> > > Yeah, that will do it.  Don't know what caused it, though (or how to
> > > fix it!)
> >
> > Well, I heard about this problems,
> (That was from me).
> 
> > but have no idea what causes them.
> I tracked it down to a bug in auto* (probably automake), due to
> AC_INIT(subdirs) in kdesdk
> instead of AC_INIT(acinclude.m4) in kdebase, which results in
> (for some reason) INSTALL being wrongly set (in fact ac_given_install is
> set too late).
> 
> I guess AC_INIT(subdirs) is there to call configure in subdirectories,
> right ?
> So I don't see how to fix this...
> 
Hmm, AC_INIT is there to give configure a chance to find out, if
it's beeing run from srcdir, nothing more. 
Wish I had the time to look into it.

Greetings, Stephan

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